What do the locals in Cabo San Lucas think of you?
They embrace me because I’ve brought a lot of business to town. We employ seventy people at Cabo Wabo — it’s a very big organization, and we only employ local people. So everyone likes that about me, but probably they should hate me, because quite honestly, I ruined their town. I hate to say it, but I did. Now there’s pizza delivery places, 31 Flavors, everything. A Planet Hollywood came and went. Everyone saw it as a gold mine. But I don’t care — all the competition in the world can come down there. I’ve got my little corner, it’s my Mecca. It’s the best place in the world to play for me. You don’t seem too bothered any more by your ugly split with Van Halen. Did the song “Little White Lie” from your first post-Van Halen solo album, Marching to Mars, get all the demons out of your system? Totally. I got them all out. I was watching Eddie and Alex on VH1, going, “He quit . . . he didn’t want to work. His work ethic sucked. All he wants to do is party and take time off.” That really w
